Detachable buckle-tongue



UNIE TES ALVAH WORSTER, OF HANNIBAL, NEW YORK.

DETACHABLE BUCKLE-TONGUE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 6,981, dated December 4, 1849.

To all 'whom z' may concern:

Be it known that I, ALVAH VVoRsTER, of Hannibal, Oswego county, State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Har ness-Buckle; and Ido herebydeclare the following a full and accurate description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecification.

Figure 1, is a View of the buckle, attached to the strap as intended tobe used. A, the buckle. B, the movable strap. C the perpendicularvprojection of the tongue (not seen in Fig. 1,) working into the holese, e, of B. D the underneath or stationary strap to which the foremostend of the buckle (l, is attached. F, the top surface or plate of thebuckle. G, the top surface of the tongue, inserted into F. k, L, thedotted lines showing the prolongation or arIn of the tongue, under thesurface of F.

Fig. 2, a View of the buckle with A, the tongue slid forward andelevated. B, perpendicular projection of the tongue intended to work inthe holes C, C, of the sliding strap D. E, E, dotted lines showing A,slid forward to be elevated. F F, dotted lines show. ing cleats on theunder side of the top plate F, (in Fig. 1).

Fig. 3, the under side of the buckle. A, a cross piece underneath with aprojection against which the end of the tongue falls. B, a cleat at thehindrnost end of the buckle attached to F, (Fig. l). D D, cleats at thefore end, and also attached to F, (Fig. l). E, cross piece uniting thesides of the buckle,

and to which the strapD (Fig. 1) is attached.

Fig. 4, is a view of the tongue detached, having a shoulder A, and armsB, and C, C.

The operation consists in attachinga strap to the cross piece E, (Fig.8,) as at l (Fig. l), the cleats B, and D, D, (Fig. 3) and B, and C, C,(Fig. 4), being about the saine thickness, the strap B, (Fig. 1,), ismade to pass between A and E, (Fig. 3,) and F, (Fig. 1,), and is ofsutHcient size to ill the space between and is Inade to slide back andforth at pleasure. B, (Fig. 2), is placed into any hole C &c. desiredand by the process of pulling, is made to slide as in (Fig. 1), theshoulder A, (Fig. 4) comes in contact with F, at. the insertion o-f G,(Fig. 1,) and t-he arms C, C (Fig. 4) also come in contact with B (Fig.By this construction the tongue is made securely in its place and thepressure, direct instead of oblique, as in nearly all other buckles.Vhenever the length of the strap is desired to be changed by sliding itforward the tongue is carried along until the arms C, C, (Fig.4) come upto the plates, D, D, (Fig. 3,) when it can be elevated with ease andadjusted at pleasure.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- Thedetachable buckle tongue constructed .and arranged in the manner, andfor the purpose herein represented.

ALVAH WORSTER.

Vitnesses:

STEPHEN D. BALLARD, ABRAM l/V. FINEoUr

